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    A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function...
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    monastery of Santa Maria de Roses (mentioned since 944). Its jurisdiction was shared by the abbots of Santa Maria de Roses and the counts of Empúries....
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    its collections to the Académie des Beaux-Arts division of the Institut de France. It is now open to the public. The villa is surrounded by nine gardens...
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  • 17 Rue Louis Auréglia. Villa Del Sol, 5 Avenue Saint Roman. 2016 – two villas: Villa Ida, 6 boulevard Rainier III, and Villa des Platanes, 2 rue Plati...
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  • Roman villas in northwestern Gaul (modern France) functioned as colonial economic centers. Most villas did not resemble the luxurious, aristocratic country...
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    Rosalia (festival) (category Ancient Roman festivals)
    In the Roman Empire, Rosalia or Rosaria was a festival of roses celebrated on various dates, primarily in May, but scattered through mid-July. The observance...
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    Villa Carlotta is a villa and botanical garden in Tremezzo on Lake Como in Northern Italy. Today the villa is a museum, whose collection includes works...
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    Garden roses are predominantly hybrid roses that are grown as ornamental plants in private or public gardens. They are one of the most popular and widely...
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    and techniques. Examples of Roman paintings can be found in palaces, catacombs and villas. Much of what is known of Roman painting is from the interior...
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    a rose garden at La Roseraie de L'Haÿ-les-Roses, south of Paris to the unsurpassed collection of old roses at Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire, England....
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    odlikovao Kusturicu, 12 May 2012 "Le cinéma soutient Roman Polanski / Petition for Roman Polanski". Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (in French)...
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    Fréjus (category Roman harbors in France)
    mausoleum at rue de La Tourrache. The remains of a suburban villa are at La Rose des Sables. Roman road bridges still exist at Cantonniers and at Esclapes...
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    and lyrical description of the gardens of Roman villas. Pliny the Younger described his life at his villa at Laurentum: " ...a good life and a genuine...
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    employees and slaves". Villa, Villae en Gaule romaine. Retrieved 2019-02-04. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Roman Gaul. Romans in Gaul : A Webliography...
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    the 17th century. It was the site of a Gallo-Roman villa that was inherited by the Carolingians. In his villa here, Theoduadum palatium, Louis the Pious...
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    Unai Emery (category Aston Villa F.C. managers)
    manager and former player who is the manager of the Premier League club Aston Villa. After a career spent playing mostly in Spain's Segunda División, Emery...
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    Pallavicini-Rospigliosi in Rome, Italy Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini near Genoa, Italy Palazzo Pallavicini in Bologna, Italy Villa Gandolfi-Pallavicini in Bologna...
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    Boscoreale Treasure (category Ancient Greek and Roman objects in the British Museum)
    large collection of exquisite silver and gold Roman objects discovered in the ruins of the ancient Villa della Pisanella at Boscoreale, near Pompeii, southern...
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    Within Catholicism, a miracle of the roses is a miracle in which roses manifest an activity of God or of a saint. Such a miracle is presented in various...
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    leper, and that, at the time of her death, the city of Lima smelled like roses; roses also started falling from the sky. Many places in the New World are named...
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    and he began to Romanize Provence politically and culturally. Roman engineers and architects built monuments, theatres, baths, villas, fora, arenas and...
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    and lyrical description of the gardens of Roman villas. Pliny the Younger described his life at his villa at Laurentum: "a good life and a genuine one...
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    to this day. The region got its name in Roman times, when it was known as Provincia Romana, simply "the Roman province". This eventually was shortened...
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  • at Misenum. En route, it supplied several cities and many villas, using branch lines. Roman aqueducts required a comprehensive system of regular maintenance...
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    - TV movie Roses à crédit (2010) - producer Mitterrand à Vichy (2008) - TV movie Les mitterrand's' (2006) - TV documentary Capitaines des ténèbres (2005)...
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    with Roman rule. The cult of Antinous was to become very popular in the Greek-speaking world and also found support in the West. In Hadrian's villa, statues...
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    northwest of Florence, near the town of Sesto Fiorentino. The villa was located near a Roman aqueduct, and took its name from the water cisterns (castella)...
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    Christians against Roman persecution. Massive foundations, sited so far from a Roman frontier, were attributed by C. Jullian to a temple or a villa instead. In...
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    Arielle Dombasle (category French Roman Catholics)
    Villa (1995). She has worked with a wide variety of filmmakers, including Werner Schroeter on Two (2002), Philippe de Broca on Amazon (2000), Roman Polanski...
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    the Hôtel Beau Rivage, then at the Hôtel de la Méditerranée, then at la Villa des Alliés in Cimiez. In 1921 he lived in an apartment in Nice, next to the...
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